Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2008

open source = successful business strategy


Again a company is bought for a huge amount of money, which successfully placed an open source product in the market.

On 16 January 2008 MySQL AB announced an agreement to be acquired by Sun Microsystems for approximately US $1 billion. The acquisition is expected to close in the third or fourth quarter of Sun's fiscal year which ends on 30 June 2008.

This acquisition shows clearly how interesting open source has become as a business strategy. The market value of a product is not influenced by the type of license. Wether its closed or open source is just not important for successful marketing.

Nonetheless I hope we will see less closed source in the future.

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